Introduction to organisations and management

On last Monday, I have learnt lots of interesting fact about organisations and managements.

 Organisations are groups of people work together in order to achieve certain goals. Organisations have existed for thousands of years. For example, the Roman Army movie that I have watched shows me an effective organistion. There are lots of soldiers but they still work effectively, they all stand in line and everyone knows what their jobs are.

Nowadays, we can see organisations everywhere. There are some famous organisations such as Google, Samsung, Apple… those are the successful companies in the world. In order to succeed, those companies need to have an effective organisation. There are five basic parts of an organisation that they may follow: top management, operational support, operational core, organisational support and middle management. Each part has different jobs. I think the top management is the most important part in an organisation because people who are doing this job are usually referred to as the board of directors. Their job is to focus on long-term development of an organisation; they organise and control the entire task of the employee.

Managements are the act of controlling and coordinating things or people.  After learning about Henry Mintzberg_ a Canadian academic of business and management and Henri Farol_ a French mining engineer and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration, I have learnt that there are ten management roles and six managerial activities. They identify the role and the job’s activities that people should do. For example, according to Henri Fayol, the job of forecasting is to predict what might happen in the future.

After this lesson, I can distinguish between organisations and managements. The lesson helps me to understand the parts of organisation and the most interesting things are the roles and activities of people in management from Henry Mintzberg and Henri Fayol.